Editorial: The Amazon is burning and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doesn't care
by Los Angeles Times
Aug 28, 2019
2 minutes
The fires raging at the edges of the Amazon rainforest are, at the moment, largely consuming lands that had already been converted from their natural state into tracts waiting to be farmed or developed. Nevertheless, some of the blazes are eating away at the rainforest itself, reducing its size by a football field a minute. And one of the most disturbing things about
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